Sounds like the college years…<\/p>\n
After 39 days and 104 games, the FIFA World Cup is over.<\/p>\n
In total, 48 teams took to the pitches across North America. In the end, one (Spain) held up the trophy.<\/p>\n
Vancouver held seven of those games at BC Place, with fans arriving from the four corners of the Earth. Here’s a breakdown of the numbers from the hosting gig.<\/p>\n
729,000,000:\u00a0The total estimated maximum cost for the province and city to host the World Cup games.
\n242,000,000: The estimated security budget for Vancouver to host the World Cup games.
\n1,400,000: The number of transit boardings on June 24, the highest single-day ridership since the pandemic.
\n556,528: How many visits there were at the\u00a0FIFA Fan Festival at Hastings Park.
\n367,479: The number of fans at all the Vancouver games combined.
\n312,573: How many people watched games at the Shipyards in North Vancouver.
\n218,476: Beers sold at BC Place.
\n40,943: The biggest day at the Fan Festival (June 18, when Canada took on Qatar).
\n26,132: Hot dogs sold at BC Place.
\n22,115: Portions of chicken tenders sold at BC Place.
\n16,954: Bags of popcorn sold at BC Place.
\n14,734: Bags of chips sold at BC Place.
\n8,345: Orders of nachos sold at BC Place.
\n3,800: How many items were sent to TransLink’s lost and found (in June 2025, there were 500).
\n1,300: The (maximum) number of police officers deployed in Vancouver on match days (the largest deployment ever in Vancouver).
\n1,225: FIFA volunteers at the games and fan festival.
\n850: The number of private security<\/a> at BC Place on game days.
\n745: Unauthorized drone flights police recorded.
\n197: The number of\u00a0FIFA-related arrests<\/a>.
\n88: Percentage discount on official FIFA 2026\u00a0foam gear now that the World Cup has ended.
\n26: The cost of a craft draught beer<\/a>.
\n23: The number of goals scored by all teams in Vancouver.
\n10: The number of teams that played at\u00a0BC Place.
\n7: The number of goals Canada scored in Vancouver.
\n2: Red cards handed out in Vancouver.
\n1: Unexpected performances by aging Canadian rocker Tom Cochrane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sounds like the college years… After 39 days and 104 games, the FIFA World Cup is over. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-820103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}